Arbinet
Arbinet is an international voice and IP solutions provider headquartered in New York City and founded by Alex Mashinsky. Founded in 1996 Arbinet manages business relationships, back office operations and call routing for member companies who connect to Arbinet's platform.
Arbinet routes approximately 2% of the world’s international voice traffic to more than 1,300 global destinations. The Arbinet network includes over 1100 carriers and service providers who buy and sell voice and IP communications capacity and content. Representing Fixed line, mobile, wholesale, calling card, Internet Service Providers and VoIP, Arbinet also has an IP Exchange Platform, which was acquired from Band-X, Inc. in 2004. The platform allows members to buy IP transit solutions that include private peering, BGP and optimized routing capabilities. The IP Platform also enables virtual data center capabilities providing access to multiple diverse IP backbones through one connection.
Global Points of Presence
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- London
- Frankfurt
- Hong Kong
Types of Services
- thexchange – web-based platform for buying and selling voice telecommunications capacity. Member companies have access to buy, sell, and manage routes, as well as settle voice traffic in a neutral, anonymous marketplace.
- PrivateExchange (PEX) - creates virtual interconnections and aggregates existing interconnections with corresponding carriers that have direct routes into Arbinet's markets
- Carrier Services - Arbinet manages pricing, routing, reporting, credit risk and settlement for providers
- Query Services - Advanced routing services
- OptimizedIP - a routing solution that determines the best routing table by analyzing metrics across multiple ISPs through near real-time testing of packet loss, jitter and latency of each IP prefix on the Internet. This cost-effective mechanism increases quality as it allows users to multi-home with numerous major IP backbones on a Layer 2 basis and reduces the number of network connections required by traditional routing solutions such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
- IP Solutions - Cost-effective solutions for managing ISP supplier relationships, streamlining operations and expanding network connectivity